introduced to a whole new perspective

Back from my so called second home, Redang Island, met a few old friends there. As usual, island people as always the same. Leslie went there as well, oh ya, leslie is a scuba technician. He service most of the compressors for dive resorts and works for rainbow runner, supplies PADI materials and some brands of scuba products and equipments.
Anyway back to my stuff, Redang bay indeed changed alot, Eric somehow brought his whole empire to redang bay. His parents and sister not forgetting Chris, whos already there, and william, the other dive guide.

Started my dive almost immediately, and it didn't went very well, a diver went out of air and came to share air with me but suddenly she shoot up after one breath ( i think) went i just turn to grap my other regulator... DARN! is really a turn off for that day. the others, as usual do the normal guiding and helping open water course with joe.

Was crapping and talking to leslie during the last night before i left the island. His words actually gave me a wake up call. Leslie as i know, has alot of logics in him. he know almost everything about diving but he dun really dive. But he can literally tells u wat to eat and wat not to eat before and after dive. As we were talking about diving, he said that he DO care about the environment and the sea but seeing all these, plus scuba business is his bread and butter, there is nothing he can do. Looking at the amount of snorkellers and DIVERS urinate inside the sea, it changes the pH values of the sea environment the corals are dying as well as the fishes. i felt guilty. he said "Conservation" this word is very dirty. we were are doing is actually doing it worst. Sand at redang island or maybe other island a best place for turtle laying eggs but with all the beach disco and boats moving in and out, they stop coming. Snokeller and diver bring breads to feed the fish, causing inbalance in the environment, Resort pumping fresh water into the sea causing change in salinity. As long as is a dive site, the area slowly degrades.

Oh my god, i'm doing something wat i love and so passionate about, thinking that we are doing good for the environment, but instead harming them. and last thing he said is that the only way, is to stop snorkelling, stop diving and leave them alone. which nothing can be done now, he does scuba for a living while i'm planning too in future but i won't say that diving does help in conserving the environment anymore. Yes indeed, Conservation is a very dirty word. and AWARE will be just another business scam i guess....